The 2013 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show was filled with angelic beauties, but one woman in particular stunned audiences. Behati Prinsloo was one of the show's brightest stars, but who is this stunning lingerie model? Everyone wants to get close to this beauty. Since that's not likely, (sorry!) here's what you need to know about the angel to feel like you really know her.

Where She Came From

Prinsloo, 24, grew up in a small town named Grootfontein in Namibia. Her father was a minister, and her mother ran a bed and breakfast.

"I'm an only child, and pretty much did kid stuff: gymnastics, track, riding, field hockey," Prinsloo told Fashionista.com. "I hung out on my friend's farm a lot."

According to Prinsloo's Twitter page, she is "a born South African, raised Namibian."

Model Status

Prinsloo told Fashion Television that she never wanted to be a model. In 2005, the daughter of Sarah Doukas, the scout who discovered Kate Moss, was on vacation in Cape Town, South Africa. It was there that the 16-year-old Prinsloo was discovered. By September, she was walking the runway for Prada and Miu Miu's spring shows in Milan and Paris. She has also strutted her stuff for Marc Jacobs and Narcisco Rodriguez.

Life for the new model, however, was not all smiles and heels.

"Living in model flats scarred me for life," she told Fashionista.com. "Girls are the dirtiest people ever. For the most part the flats would be empty, but then there would be older girls -- and I was like 16 -- who would bring their boyfriends home, which was strictly not allowed and I would hear everything. Or I'd wake up in the morning and there would be like a man in his underwear on the couch. It was awful."

In 2009, Prinsloo got her wings and became a Victoria's Secret Angel.

She's Taken

The model is currently engaged to Marron 5 lead singer Adam Levine. She won over People's Sexiest Man Alive in May 2012 by being herself.

"If you're going to try to impress a guy by acting like someone else, he's going to see you for how you really are, and it's gonna be the worst," Prinsloo told Seventeen. "I'm so bad at flirting, but I think it's so important to be yourself."

How did Prinsloo react to learning her beau was the Sexiest Man Alive?

"Laughter, a lot of laughter," Levine, 34, told People. "She's keeping me humble."

Her Love Affair With Cameras

Prinsloo has done more in front of a camera than pose in her underwear. The angel also has acting experience. She played a Victoria's Secret model in a 2012 episode of Hawaii Five-0, but has no immediate plans to stay on the small screen.

"I think if the opportunity comes up, I'll definitely give it a go," she said on The Couch. "It's not something I'm pursuing at the moment ... it was just a fun thing that kind of came up, and I had the time, and it was Hawaii! I couldn't say no."

Prinsloo also appeared in The Virgins' "Rich Girls" music video, but her love affair doesn't end in front of the camera. The model also dabbles in photography.

"I only shoot film, mostly black and white, and I use a Nikon F10 and also the Contax G2 Jamie [Strachan, her male model ex-boyfriend] got me for my birthday," she told model Coco Rocha. "I love film. Helmut Newton's pictures are amazing, and that's what I want. I think digital in some ways took away a photographer's freeness. Not knowing what you have and seeing the pictures when you develop them is really nice. Every one comes out different and I love the feel of film, the way it looks."

She Likes A Close Shave

The model own a hairless Sphynx cat named Gollum.

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